Locals win winemaking ribbons at fair

Five Fallbrook residents won ribbons at the San Diego County Fair’s homemade wine competition June 17.

Bob Howard won three ribbons, Carin Howard took home two ribbons, Chuck Morgan was given two ribbons, Jim Swelgin received two ribbons, and Samuel Oriza merited one ribbon.

Bob Howard won second place in the Sauvignon Blanc category with a 2006 bottle, third place for his 2004 bottle of Zinfandel, and fifth place for his Viognier entry bottled in 2006. Carin Howard took second in the Fruit Non-Stone-Dry class for a blossom off the Howards’ guava tree and bottled in 2005 and fourth in the Comp...